%% Image pulled per Image Pickin' thread http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1371433077091174900%% Please start a new thread if you'd like to suggest an image.%%->'''Joekage:''' Personally, I don't see what's so important about a bridge. I mean, come on. First, one guy makes a bridge. And everybody uses it, they're like, "Ooh, look, a bridge. That's new." So, like, these other two guys make another bridge. And it's kinda like the first one, but people use it anyway because the first guy is like "Oh, their bridge is pretty good too, check it out." And then these three other guys are like, "Oh, we're going to make the best bridge ever, we're going to combine our talents and be like, "Oh, look at our bridge, it's totally amazing, ooh." and it's like, it turns out really good, and it's like the best out of all the other bridges. Everybody subscribes to it.\\'''Naruto:''' Subscribes to it?\\'''Joekage:''' I mean, uh, everybody crosses it. Because it's a bridge. Yeah. And before you know it everybody and their mother is making a bridge! So there's a bridge. Everywhere. Nobody even knows why they're making a bridge anymore. They just want people to cross it. They don't care where they're going. The first guy is like, "I'm going to go to conventions to promote my bridge!" It's like, it's just a bridge. It's not a big deal. Get over it.\\'''Naruto:''' What's he talking about?\\'''David Bowie Sensei:''' Apparently bridges.-->-- ''WebVideo/NarutoTheAbridgedComedyFandubSpoofSeriesShow''

A SubTrope of GagDub and a type of CrackFic, that deals specifically with shortening works of fiction, and [[AffectionateParody making fun of it]]. The first of these was ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', which posted its first episode on Website/YouTube in 2006 – however, the idea of abridging works for fun started [[OlderThanYouThink way earlier]], dating back to Theatre/TheCompleteWorksOfWilliamShakespeareAbridged (a play first performed in 1987), as well as UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash cartoons in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Other Youtubers who liked ''Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged'' began abridging other popular series. Originally, abridging was simply a FollowTheLeader, but over the years has become [[FromClonesToGenre a genre in itself]]. In the mid-2010s, a sub-genre based on "[[WebVideo/CodeMENT MENT]]" emerged.

Most are on Website/YouTube, but some can be found elsewhere, like [[http://www.dailymotion.com/ Dailymotion.]] Also be aware that different episodes of certain abridged series may be scattered across different users.

Generally, the existence of most of these fall into a legal grey area, at least as far as US law is concerned. While all of them are generally parodies, which are legal as per the Supreme Court decision in ''[[http://tinyurl.com/2e95bdy Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.,]]'' the use of copyrighted material puts it at odds with the DMCA.[[note]] (that, and under the DMCA, works are considered infringing unless proven otherwise, although frivolous notices are illegal)[[/note]] This has led to Website/YouTube pulling abridged series such as OPA Studios, ''WebVideo/SailorMoonAbridged'' and ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', to mixed success.

'''Remember that this is a genre, not a trope. Do not put a link to this page in the source work trope list. Instead put it under "ReferencedBy" in the work's /Trivia sub page.'''

Compare FanVid and RemixComic

See also AbridgedSeriesTropes. Doesn't really have much to do with AbridgedForChildren, however.----!!Examples:

Before adding something to this section, please make sure it DOESN'T have its own page and thus belongs in the above section. List the source first, then link to the abridged series artist; there should be ''at least two episodes'' made; please place new series in alphabetical order by title. If there are multiple authors, those should also be alphabetized.

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]* ''Series/BreakingBad'':** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtZpo89mmJo Breaking Bad Is Now On ABC]] - A GenreShift turning the show into an ABC sitcom, complete with LaughTrack.* Series/DrakeAndJosh** [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4r5Fo3yxIgz-ekkYkG7QoA Luisjefe1]]* ''Series/GameOfThrones''** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajMzpiyZ4GA A Game of Thrones Parody]]* ''Series/{{Heroes}}''** [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5091639/1/Heroes_Abridged Heroes Abridged]]** [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4860110/1/Heroes_Abridged_With_Commentary_Genesis Heroes Abridged With Commentary]]* ''Franchise/KamenRider''** ''Series/KamenRiderDecade''*** [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/916625/chapters/1778513 Kamen Rider Decade: Journey Through The Abridged]]* Series/{{Lost}}** [[http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=lostuntangled Lost Untangled]]* ''Series/OnceUponATime''** [[http://daesgatling.livejournal.com/ Once Upon A Time Abridged]]* ''Franchise/PowerRangers''** ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce''*** [[http://ie.youtube.com/user/ReloadPsi ReloadPsi]]* ''Series/ThePrisoner''** [[http://www.youtube.com/user/parabolproductions/ Parabol Productions]] presents ''The Detective''.* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''** [[http://www.youtube.com/user/GeneraIGrin?feature=watch TNG Recut]]. This one features ''extreme'' AdaptationalVillainy, as the Enterprise crew are turned from the compassionate and moral people they are in the show into a gang of murderers and psychopaths.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Theater]]* Theatre/TheCompleteWorksOfWilliamShakespeareAbridged: Arguably the UrExample of this style of storytelling, predating the first internet-based abridgement [[OlderThanTheyThink by 19 years]].[[note]] This play debuted in 1987; Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged began in 2006.[[/note]]* ''[[http://www.broadwayabridged.com/ Broadway Abridged]]''* ''Tragedy of the Embryo'', by Frigyes Karinthy. A parody of Imre Madach's Tragedy of Man is deliberately presented as a compressed stage adaptation of the original work.[[/folder]]